Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

stosss <stosss@×××××.com> [10-04-03 05:31]:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM,  <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the
> > best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on
> > uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database
> > machines  etc.
> >
> > Wnat I want is a fast and stable (!) filesystem for a desktop PC
> > with one 1TByte harddisk. Since using Gentoo and a lot of sources
> > I do compile very often "bigger things" (blender-2.50 for example).
> > Another thing: Due to my experimenting it is possible that I have to
> > reboot "hard", which means, the filesystem will be unmounted not
> > cleanly ("dirty" do to say...;) The choosen filesystem should be
> > good in recovering such thing.
> >
> > I am currently using a vanilla 2.6.32.10 kernel.
> >
> > The question, what remains is: What choose should I make?
>
> I have been following this thread. I decided to research to do my own
> comparisons of ext3, ext4, JFS and XFS.
>
> ext3 has 3 journaling levels:
>
> Journal (lowest risk)
> Ordered (medium risk) most Linux distributions are using this one
> Writeback (highest risk)
>
> XFS uses Ordered (medium risk)
> JFS uses Writeback (highest risk)
>
> It appears from the documentation that ext4 takes the best of ext3, XFS and JFS.
>
> My research also showed that ext2/3 is the most widely used on Linux
> and has the greatest community support coverage.
>
> ext4 falls into the same category as XFS and JFS in this respect.
>
> It appears that ext4, XFS or JFS or some combination of them would be
> the best choice.
>
> If you want to know where I got my information use Google like I did.
>
> --
> If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the
> people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become
> happy. - Thomas Jefferson
>

Hi Stoss,

thanks for your effort ! :)

As I wrote, I did googling before starting this thread and found
mostly outdated informations or informations not applying to my
situation. Often it is best -- regardless what papers of 2008 or
before are stateing -- to ask people for their current and 
uptodate experiences. Additionally your informations are all pure
technical based...they are missing exactly what I was searching
for: Experiences of people using different setups. And as you can
see: This thread reports many of that.

Best reagrds.
mcc



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